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| Title: |
Lone Star and Sunset Ltd |
| Description: |
The Lone Star (on the left) had arrived from Chicago a couple of hours earlier and will be serviced and cleaned overnight by the Amtrak crew based in Houston. This crew also watered the Sunset Limited (on the right) when it passed through town every other day. This was the westbound Sunset headed to Los Angeles. The dome on the Sunset was an ex-CB&Q car built by Budd in 1954 (the info I have says it ran on the NP North Coast Limited?). It was a 4 duplex single room-4 roomette-4 double bedroom car rebuilt in 1967 with a buffet under the dome. The dome seats were rebuilt as lounge seating. It looks like an ex-Southern sleeper back of the dome (the Southern Crescent was taken over by Amtrak a month or two before). This was probably the transcontinental sleeper (NY-LA). |
| Photo Date: |
3/10/1979 Upload Date: 6/28/2009 2:30:04 PM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Gary Morris |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 528(SDP40F) |
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1049 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Sunset Limited |
| Description: |
Eastbound on the SP Sunset Route passing - what ended up being - the last manned tower in Texas (Tower 17). The foreground track is the Santa Fe Galveston line. North past the tower was the route of the Santa Fe Texas Chief and Amtraks' Lone Star |
| Photo Date: |
2/10/1978 Upload Date: 6/8/2008 2:33:57 PM |
| Location: |
Rosenberg, TX |
| Author: |
Gary Morris |
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| Locomotives: |
AMTK 570(SDP40F) |
| Views: |
1098 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
San Francisco Zephyr |
| Description: |
Departing Denver passing through areas that have really changed over the years. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/1976 Upload Date: 6/8/2008 2:34:00 PM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Gary Morris |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 586(SDP40F) |
| Views: |
697 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak SDP40F #629-584 |
| Description: |
Steam generators working on a chilly day (pop off valves?) as these units pull into Union Station to be swapped out with the power on the soon to arrive San Francisco Zephyr. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/1976 Upload Date: 1/27/2008 4:27:09 PM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Gary Morris |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 629(SDP40F) |
| Views: |
1078 Comments: 0 |
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